DOVER - A suspected drunken driver was charged Sunday with recklessly causing the death of one of his four passengers and injuring the other three in an early-morning crash in town in the area of routes 15 and 46, authorities said.

Javier Santos Archaga, 36, of Dover, was charged with one count of death-by-auto, a second-degree crime, and with three counts of assault by auto to cover injuries to the surviving passengers, according to a release from Morris County Prosecutor Fredric M. Knapp and Dover Public Safety Director Daniel DeGroot.

The names of the deceased, a male, and the passengers who were injured in the crash that occurred around 1:30 a.m. were not immediately released. Archaga was remanded to the Morris County jail and will have a hearing Monday at which the Prosecutor's Office is expected to announce whether they would seek to detain him pretrial or release him under special conditions while the charges are pending.

Anyone with information about the crash is asked to contact the Dover Police Department at 973-366-0302 or the Prosecutor's Office Major Crimes Unit at 973-285-6200.